Many companies have good bookkeepers and accountants but no one senior reviewing the output, improving the process, or connecting the numbers to decisions. The result is familiar: a slow close, reports nobody quite trusts, and a management team flying a quarter behind. Cipher Financial provides the senior oversight layer without the cost of a full-time hire.
Oversight services
- Controller supervision — review, direction, and mentoring for your controller or senior accountant.
- Month-end close improvement — a documented close checklist, clear ownership, and a close that finishes in days rather than weeks.
- Accounting-process oversight — billing, payables, payroll, and reconciliations running on a disciplined rhythm.
- Management reporting — monthly reporting packages that are accurate, on time, and actually read.
- KPI dashboards — the operational and financial measures that matter, maintained consistently.
- Internal controls — practical segregation of duties, approvals, and safeguards proportionate to your size.
- Policy development — accounting policies, approval matrices, and expense frameworks written down and followed.
- Systems implementation — selecting and implementing accounting and reporting systems that fit the business, and retiring the spreadsheet workarounds.
- Accounting and reporting calendars — who does what, by when, every month — so reporting stops depending on heroics.
- Finance-team structure — the right roles at the right stage, and a hiring plan for the function as the company grows.
Where this fits
This service suits companies whose transactions are handled competently but whose finance function has plateaued: the close is slow, reporting is thin, and the team would benefit from senior review a few days a month. It also pairs naturally with fractional CFO work — oversight of the function plus strategic leadership above it.